Re: NHL 13 Demo Video - True Performance Skating Tutorial
The new push puck animation from the Demo Tutorial Video looks *really* bad. Like NBA Elite 11 levels of bad. The puck magically pulls back with the stick to make it look magnetized (which goes against "the puck is looser" comments we've seen in other videos). I don't buy the idea that they can't fix it. Even if the puck isn't really loose they can still make the animation in a way such that the puck doesn't slide backwards.
Furthermore I wonder if thats the new push puck mechanic or if you can still do it manually with LB to get bigger pushes (great for avoiding opponents). I remember the first year Push Puck was introduced it was an awesome mechanic and it let you smoothly tab LB without losing momentum, but a year or two later it was changed such that you could only tap LB once because if you tried to do it multiple times your player would slow down to catch the puck before doing it again. I'd really like to see the former way because thats more realistic.
On another note, I'm really intrigued to see how the poke check works this year. One thing that has bothered me in years past is that in years past you haven't really been able to adjust the reach of your player, only the angle that they are pointing the stick. And players also automatically go into a glide when pokechecking which puts them at a severe disadvantage. The one thing 2K did great in the latter years was penalty killing because defenders could pokecheck freely while moving their feet and it felt and looked a lot more realistic.
By the way, I'm not undermining the freaking incredible work they've done this year, but as this game gets better and better and better every year, every little mistake gets more and more noticeable. Overall, everything else looks and sounds fantastic this year. They may also need to work a bit on players getting checked animations (there seems to be a lot of flopping), but thats the only other major complaint I have about gameplay.
The new push puck animation from the Demo Tutorial Video looks *really* bad. Like NBA Elite 11 levels of bad. The puck magically pulls back with the stick to make it look magnetized (which goes against "the puck is looser" comments we've seen in other videos). I don't buy the idea that they can't fix it. Even if the puck isn't really loose they can still make the animation in a way such that the puck doesn't slide backwards.
Furthermore I wonder if thats the new push puck mechanic or if you can still do it manually with LB to get bigger pushes (great for avoiding opponents). I remember the first year Push Puck was introduced it was an awesome mechanic and it let you smoothly tab LB without losing momentum, but a year or two later it was changed such that you could only tap LB once because if you tried to do it multiple times your player would slow down to catch the puck before doing it again. I'd really like to see the former way because thats more realistic.
On another note, I'm really intrigued to see how the poke check works this year. One thing that has bothered me in years past is that in years past you haven't really been able to adjust the reach of your player, only the angle that they are pointing the stick. And players also automatically go into a glide when pokechecking which puts them at a severe disadvantage. The one thing 2K did great in the latter years was penalty killing because defenders could pokecheck freely while moving their feet and it felt and looked a lot more realistic.
By the way, I'm not undermining the freaking incredible work they've done this year, but as this game gets better and better and better every year, every little mistake gets more and more noticeable. Overall, everything else looks and sounds fantastic this year. They may also need to work a bit on players getting checked animations (there seems to be a lot of flopping), but thats the only other major complaint I have about gameplay.
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